THE DEADLINESS OF DECEPTION
OPENING COMMENTS: TODAY I WATCHED A NEWS SEGMENT ABOUT THE FALL OF A WORD-FAITH/PENTICOSTAL MINISTER. THE FACT THAT HE FELL DID NOT DISTURB ME NEARLY AS MUCH AS HOW HE FELL. YOU SEE, SOME PEOPLE ENTER INTO SIN AND THEY CAN BE RESTORED. BUT OTHERS ENTER INTO DECEPTION TO THE EXTENT THAT THEY BEGIN TO TEACH FALSE DOCTRINE. WHEN THIS HAPPENS IT IS MUCH MORE DIFFICULT TO REPENT OF BECAUSE YOU DO NOT EVEN SEE YOURSELF IN SIN. YOU ARE DECEIVED. SO IF YOU ARE DECEIVED THEN YOU REALLY DO NOT KNOW YOU ARE DECEIVED, RIGHT? OR YOU WOULD NOT BE DECEIVED. HOWEVER, IN SINS LIKE ADULTRY OR OTHER MATTERS OF THE FLESH, IT IS NOT SO MUCH THAT WE ARE DECEIVED AS MUCH AS WE CHOSE A LIFESTYLE…OFTEN STILL KNOWING RIGHT AND WRONG. BUT WHEN ONE BECOMES DECIEVED…PARTICULARLY A MINISTER THAT HAS ONCE KNOWN THE TRUTH, SOMETHING OF A VERY SERIOUS NATURE HAS HAPPENED. HE HAS EXCHANGED THE TRUTH FOR A LIE AND CONSEQUENTLY OFTEN CAN BE GIVEN OVER TO A REPROBATE MIND TO WHERE THERE IS NO RETURN. THERE IS NO RETURN BECAUSE HE HAS NO DESIRE TO COME BACK. HE IS DECEIVED AND BELIEVES HE IS PREACHING THE TRUTH.
I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU THE STORY OF SUCH A PERSON AND OTHERS ALSO KNOWN THAT WERE ASSUREDLY ENLIGHTENED ONCE BY THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST BUT HAVE STRAYED AWAY FROM SOUND DOCTRINE. I WILL THEN ALSO SHARE SOME SCRIPTURES WHICH I BELIEVE WILL HELP US IN WALKING CAREFULLY AND BEING DISCERNING IN THESE END TIMES WE ARE LIVING IN.
A). THE STORY OF PASTOR CARLTON PEARSON:
1)ONCE TAUGHT SOUND DOCTRINE’
2)ON PRIME TIME TV FOR MANY YEARS IN THE 80S
3)ATTENDED ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY
4)FELL INTO ERROR BY TEACHING THAT HELL WAS NOT ETERNAL AND THEREFORE WHILE ONE MIGHT BE PUNISHED FOR AWHILE, HE WILL EVENTUALLY BE RECONCILED BACK TO GOD AND FREE TO ENTER HEAVEN…SOMETHING THE WORD OF GOD DISPUTES.
5)HE LOST MEMBERS OF HIS MEGA-CHURCH, THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF BISHOPS CALLED HIM A HERETIC…WHICH HE WAS... AND CREDIBLE MINISTRIES DISASSOCIATED THEMSELVES FROM HIM AS HE ENTERED INTO INCREASING ERROR.
6)HE EVENTUALLY TAUGHT AND NOW TEACHES A GOSPEL ON INCLUSION THAT ESSENTIALLY STATES YOU CAN BE GAY, TRANSGENDER, CHRISTIAN, MUSLIM OR ANYTHING ELSE AND STILL BE PLEASING TO GOD AND INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN. YET JESUS SAYS DIFFERENTLY. HE SAYS THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO THE FATHER AND IT IS THROUGH HIM, AND THAT HE IS THE TRUTH, THE WAY AND LIFE. HE IS THE ONLY TRUTH AND THAT TRUTH IS THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL. THERE IS NO OTHER.
B). THE STORY OF JOEL OSTEEN – HIS FATHER WAS MY PASTOR ONCE BUT TAUGHT A MUCH DIFFERENT AND PURE GOSPEL THAN THE ONE HIS SON TEACHES. JOEL WANTS US ALL TO KNOW “HOW YOU CAN BE A BETTER “YOU”. HOWEVER, THE BIBLE SAYS THAT WE ARE PUTTING TO DEATH THE DEEDS OF THE FLESH. PAUL SAID, “I MUST DECREASE AND HE MUST INCREASE.” WE DO NOT NEED TO FIND A WAY TO IMPROVE OUR SMELLY FLESH BUT RATHER WE NEED TO KILL IT…TO PUT IT TO DEATH…TO LET IT AND ITS NATURE DIE. PAUL SAID,” IT IS NO LONGER I THAT LIVES, BUT CHRIST THAT LIVES WITHIN ME.” THAT MUST BE OUR ATTITUDE RATHER THAN HUMANISM DESIGNED TO PERFECT THE FLESH AND ITS NATURE…TO TRY AND TAME IT. WE ARE TO BE TRANSFORMED THROUGH THE RENEWING OF OUR MIND BY THE WORD OF GOD AND THE WORK OF THE CROSS MADE REAL IN OUR LIVES THROUGH THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. THAT IS CORRECT DOCTRINE.
C). THE STORY OF RICK WARREN – A PROTÉGÉ OF ROBERT SCHULER, AND NORMAN VINCENT PEAL, WHO TEACHES THE POWER OF THE MIND. POSITIVE THINKING AND NEW AGE PHILOSOPHY. MR. WARREN IS NO DIFFERENT BUT IN ADDITION IS ALSO A PROPONENT OF THE DOCTRINE OF INCLUSION. HE WALKS IN THE SHADOWS OF LEONARD SWEET, ROB BELL AND THE EMERGENT CHURCH. IN A TIME OF AN INCREASING GLOBALISTIC SOCIETY, HE WANTS TO PROMOTE A GLOBALISTIC CHURCH WHERE CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM AND ALL OTHER RELIGIONS HAVE A COMMON GROUND TO WALK IN, WHEN IN CONTRAST THERE IS NO COMMON GROUND. GOD CALLS FOR SEPARATION, SAYING, "WHAT FELLOWSHIP DOES LIGHT HAVE WITH DARKNESS?" THE BIBLE, RATHER THAN TEACHING A DOCTRINE OF INCLUSION, TEACHES A DOCTRINE OF SEPARATION AND WE ARE TOLD, "BE YE SEPARATE" AND "COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM". IN WARREN'S “PURPOSE DRIVEN” LIFE AND CHURCH MATERIALS HE ADVOCATES IN ONE OF THEM THAT IN ORDER TO SUCCEED AS A CHURCH, ALL IMPLEMENTS SUCH AS THE CROSS AND ANYTHING REPRESENTATIVE OF JESUS CHRIST SHOULD BE TAKEN OUT OF THE BUILDING. HOWEVER, IN SEEMINGLY CONTRAST, JESUS SAID, “IF I BE LIFTED UP I WILL DRAW ALL MEN TO MYSELF.” RICK WARREN TEACHES A SOCIALISTIC GOSPEL THAT IS NOTHING MORE THAN ANOTHER BRAND OF ECUMENICALISM THAT WILL GIVE RISE TO THE FALSE CHURCH OF THE ANTI-CHRIST IN THE END TIME. AS THE SCRIPTURES TELL US, “THEY HOLD TO A FORM OF GODLINESS BUT DENY THE POWER THEREOF.” REMEMBER THAT IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION A FALSE CHURCH…A HARLOT…RIDES ON THE BACK OF THE BEAST (THE ANTICHRIST) BUT IN THE END, NO DIFFERENT THAN HITLER DESTROYING THE BROWNCOATS THAT PUT HIM INTO OFFICE AND IN THEIR PLACE APPOINTED THE SS AND GUSTAPOS, THE ANTICHRIST WILL VISCIOUSLY TURN ON THIS HARLOT WORLD RELIGION AND DESTROY IT WHEN HE NO LONGER HAS ANY USE FOR IT.
LETS LOOK AT SOME SCRIPTURES THAT FURTHER SHOW US BOTH THE DEADLINESS OF DECEPTION AND, IN CONTRAST, HOW WE OUGHT TO WALK IN THIS END TIME.
1 TIMOTHY 4: 1 – WE ARE WARNED OF THE COMING APOSTASY AND FALLING AWAY FROM THE FAITH.
2 TIMOTHY 4: 10 – DEMAS DESERTS PAUL HAVING LOVED THE WORLD.
2 TIMOTHY 1:13-14 – Retain the standard of sound words (or doctrine) we have received and guard through the Holy Spirit the treasure (His Word) that has been entrusted to us.
ROMANS 16:17 – PAUL GIVES WARNING TO BE CAREFUL WHO YOU LISTEN TO
COLOSSIANS 4:17 – PAUL ISSUES A CAREFUL WARNING AND ADMONISHION TO A BROTHER TO FULFILL HIS MINISTRY
II. TEXT : ACTS 17:10-11 ( THE BEREAN WAY)
1). WE ARE LIVING IN A DAY OF INCREASED DECEPTON WITH FALSE TEACHING ENTERING THE CHURCH.
2). MANY NAME THE NAME OF JESUS OPENLY AND YET TEACH FALSE DOCTRINE
3). MANY HAVE WALKED IN CREDIBILE MINISTRIES AT ONE TIME ONLY TO STRAY FROM THE TRUTH LATER.
4). THE BEREANS RECEIVED THE WORD EAGERLY. THEY APPROACHED IT WITH UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IT REALLY WAS, WITH REVERANCE AND THEREFORE ANXIOUSLY ANTICIPATED IT AND HUNGERED AFTER IT. THEY PLACED VALUE ON THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD.
5). THEY WERE MORE NOBLE-MINDED THAN THOSE IN THESSALONICA. WHY? THE THESSALONIAN CHURCH WAS CONTINUALLY HAVING TO BE ADDRESSED ABOUT RECEIVING FALSE TEACHING. THEY WERE OPEN TO IT, EASILY MISLED AND IT FOUND ITS WAY INTO THE CHURCH BECAUSE THEY DID NOT PAY DILIGENT ENOUGH ATTENTION TO THE PRIOR TEACHINGS OF THE APOSTLE PAUL. THIS IS PARTICULARLY TRUE IN THE TEACHINGS OF THE RESURRECTION AND COMING OF THE LORD, AS THEY HAD BEEN CONVINCED THEY HAD MISSED IT.
6). THE BEREANS EXAMINED THE SCRIPTURE DAILY TO ENSURE THAT WAS BEING TOLD TO THEM ON A “DAILY” BASIS WAS TRUE…NO MATTER WHO THE TEACHER WAS. THEY WERE PEOPLE OF THE WORD. THEY DID NOT TAKE ANY SPIRITUAL LEADER’S WORD WITHOUT SEARCHING THE SCRIPTURES FOR CONFIRMATION? WHY? BECAUSE THEY WERE DISCERNING AND UNDERSTOOD THE FALLABILITY OF MAN. THEY UNDERSTOOD WHY PAUL SAID, “IF ANYONE PREACHES A DIFFERENT GOSPEL THAN WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD FROM ME….IF EVEN I OR AN ANGEL PREACH A DIFFERENT GOSPEL…LET HIM BE ACCURSED.
IN THESE END TIMES OF INCREASING ERROR, DECEPTION AND APOSTASY, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE ARE PEOPLE OF THE WORD…NOT PEOPLE WHO WORSHIP PERSONALITIES OR FOLLOWERS OF MEN. READ YOUR BIBLES. STUDY TO SHOW THYSELF APPROVED, AS THE WORD DIRECTS US. IN THIS WAY YOU WILL INSURE YOUR SALVATION AND THAT OF THOSE WHO LISTEN TO AND FOLLOW YOUR TEACHINGS.
MAY THE LORD BLESS THIS WORD.
EVANGELIST MISCHA SAFDIE’
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